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Sweet.

They were ok, but to me they sounded like they wanted to be Portishead but aren't as sexy.

One of the things I love most about Wilco is that every time I see them (once or twice a year), their songs have slightly different arrangements.

What's the limit you guys would spend for this show? There's a pair on ebay for $150 right now, I'm tempted.

If it was Wilco, I don't think I would pay $150 for a pair. For Jeff solo, no way. You're talking more than twice face value, for a singer who tours pretty actively. He'll be back, if not solo then with the band, and if not in Charlottesville then in DC or Norfolk, or maybe even Richmond.

I wouldn't sweat it.

I haven't got mine yet either. I wouldn't worry about it until closer to the day of the show.

I counted 76, but there was a little blip where I lost the sound for a second.

Fucking law school. If I wasn't going to be swamped with school work come September, I'd be at that Black Cat show in a heartbeat. At least I got to see Glenn open for Jeff last year.

I was the dude in the red shirt dancing and jumping like a maniac, singing along to just about every song. Sorry if I bugged anybody, but I was having a hell of a good time.

A friend of mine who loves Wilco told me that Jeff Tweedy doesn't like it when people take his picture...apparetnly he yelled at an audience member a while back stating that he was not an animal in a zoo. So I don't care that security told people to put their cameras down, but the dancing thing was LAME!!!! NO PUN INTENDED!

This is a little blown out of proportion, and there was a ton of discussion on this board after it happened - 6/30/03, I think. I was at the show, but too far back to see what had happened to make Jeff so angry. According to some people who were closer and could see what was going on, there were two guys front and center who kept taking pictures. Supposedly they were angling the shots so that both one of the guys and Jeff Tweedy would be in the pictures. Maybe they were pointing too, I don't know. Apparently, this went on throughout the show, and they were treating Tweedy as an attraction. Like getting your picture taken in front of the Empire State building or Ol' Faithful. During Misunderstood, Jeff walked to the front of the stage, pretended to kick one of the guys in the head and said, "I'll kick you in the head. I'm not a fucking monkey in the zoo!" or something along those lines. He then finished the song, the angriest version of Misunderstood I've heard, set his guitar down while it was still ringing, and walked off the stage.

The other members of Wilco kind of looked around for a few seconds, and left the stage too. Supposedly Remember the Mountainbed and California Stars were on the setlist, but the band didn't come back out.

That's all from memory, so people can correct me where I'm wrong, but it's not like Tweedy's some prima donna who can't stand his picture to be taken.

I haven't called this the best Wilco show I've seen, because I also was at the 6/09/04 show at the 9:30 Club - and that was a great, great show. Jeff running onstage, looking happy to be alive, the cracks about Reagan's funeral, hearing the new line-up live for the first time (for me). It was incredible.

The Charlottesville show Sunday night is right up there, though. It's a really hard call which was better, so I won't make it. I'm glad to have been at both.

Since someone asked about the Charlottesville show - doors are at 5:30. Show starts at 7. This means French Toast will finish at 7:45, and we can expect Wilco on stage somewhere around 8:15.

The venue at William and Mary was pretty cavernous, but Stan does a great job adjusting to any room. I thought the sound was fine, but like I said earlier, I was near the soundboard. The problem, I think, is that the main speakers were pointing towards the seats, and none were pointed toward the floor. There were a few stage monitors pointed toward the crowd on the floor. I bet the sound wasn't the best in front of the stage.

After I'm a Wheel, people started turning around and leaving immediately. There probably was a curfew, but I feel like if people had stayed and cheered for another song, we would've gotten one. I don't really like I'm a Wheel at all, but this was the best version of it I've heard. Also, earlier in the show, they played the best War on War I've heard too - and I've heard a shit ton of that one.

I know on paper, this doesn't look like the best setlist, and yeah, they play these songs to death. BUT - the band is on fire right now. This was my sixth (I think) show, and I would hesitate to call it the best, but I can say I have never seen the band play so well. And they all had smiles on their faces throughout the show, totally loving it. Glenn Kotche and Nels Cline are indispensible.

The way William and Mary handled the General Admission ticket holders fucking sucked. First we weren't allowed onto the floor, then we were, but only the first row or two of seats, and only after W&M kids had filled half the floor. My group had good seats near the soundboard, so we opted to stay because we had better sightlines. But we were there early enough to be right in front, had the policy been different. A minor complaint from my perspective, but some people were really upset about it.

The show itself was great. Lots of energy, the crowd was loving it, and the bleachers were pretty full even up to the nosebleeds. It was the largest crowd I've seen at a Wilco show (but I'm used to seeing them at the 9:30 Club). The W&M students knew pretty much only A Ghost Is Born songs, which surprised me. Surprising no one, the set was Ghost heavy.

The show has me really excited for tomorrow night, even though I know it'll be mostly the same songs. They're just nailing each one. And tomorrow is the first time my girlfriend will get to see Wilco, and she loves them almost as much as I do.

Clay dot markers, no neck binding... makes it a pre 65 guitar... so its dated somewhere between 62-65 i reckon...

 

its such a frankenstein guitar... very sonic youth.

I'm guessing it's a '62. I have a '62 reissue, and it looks exactly like that (minus the altered pick-up, of course).